Step One: Create your avatar

Most hypergrid-enabled worlds allow you to create a free avatar and join the world.

Here is the OSgrid page for new members. You can use any name you’d like for your avatar name, including your real name, and you can have as many different avatars as you’d like.

Step Two: Download a viewer

The most popular viewer for OpenSim is the Firestorm Viewer, which is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. If you plan to explore the hypergrid with the Oculus Rift, you should use the CtrlAltStudio Viewer.

When you first open the viewer, there is a “Log into grid” drop-down menu at the bottom center of the screen. Select OSgrid, if that is the grid home you chose for your avatar, then enter the avatar’s name and the password and click to log in.

Step Three: Teleport to another world

Log in and look around. Go through a tutorial to learn how to move around and change your appearance. Make some friends with other residents and pick up some freebies to outfit your new avatar.

Now pick a new destination to go to. Hyperica and OpenSim Worlds are two of the biggest hypergrid directories. But why not visit Metropolis, the second most-popular world on the hypergrid? It’s a European grid, based in Germany. Its hypergrid address is hypergrid.org:8002.

In your viewer, pull up the Map window by clicking CTRL-M, then paste the address into the map’s search box and hit “Search.” Once the destination is found, select it, and click “Teleport.” You will now travel via the hypergrid to Metropolis.

Once you land there, you’ll find that you can continue to send messages to the friends you made on OSgrid and to access your inventory. Plus, you can make new friends on Metropolis, join groups, even go shopping or pick up freebies and bring them back home to OSgrid. You can also save landmarks of your favorite destinations.

Hyperica is a a grid with an in-world hyperport as well as an online directory of destinations.

There are two other ways to travel, besides using the hypergrid address. You can also use landmarks you’ve saved previously, or that were given to you by friends. And you can use hypergates to travel from one world to another. Some popular places to find gates to other worlds include the Hyperica hyperport at hg.hyperica.com:8022, Soloton at soloton.selfhost.eu:8002, and Sanctuary, at sanctuary.homelinux.org:8012:Eld.

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